Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-27

OF course there are honest detectives
who are worthy of all the confidence
placed in them. The percentage, how
ever, is not very large.
1t is not very long since the iron fur.
naces and steel rail factories in this cOun-
try were running on short time or were
shut down altogether. Now they cannot
supply the demand, and large shipments
are being made from England. The Com
merclal Bulletin says that 1.-The steel rail
market is noticeably strong and the al
lotted production tor the year has been
extended to l,6S0,000 tons. The official
record showed that up 10 Jan. l 1882, 900
tons had been sold for 1887 delivery. As
per latest mail accounts, the foreign
markets remain very strong. An ad =
ditional 10000 tons Of English steel rails
were purchased this week at $45, deliv-
cred on the Pacific coast. and mail reports
state that since Jan. no less than 10000
tons Of MiddlesoorOugh pig have been sold
for American account" Alabama and
Tennessee had better hurry along the
building Of their iron furnaces as rapidly
as possibly the iron and the steel rails
which they can produce are wanted badly.
If England can afford to send these artl-
cles here they can be manufactured here
at an immense profit.
An inspired special from A tlanta TO the
Cincinnati Enquirer deals with politics
in Georgia. Among other things it says:
THE minOrity-for there is a minority in
Macon, with 0utpOsts In savannah ana
Augusta-was routed, horse and foot, in
the late State elections. 1t is believed by
many that this minority could be readily
changed into the majority II 1t had but
skillful leaders" There need be no fret
ting on the score of leaders. They will be
| forthcoming al the proper time, and they
will possess all the skill necessary. But.
after all, il doesn't matter. Just wait
until Senator Brown ana his Judgment"
withdraw from politics; the machine will
80 TO pieces fast enough then.
Civil Service Commissioner Edcerton
appears TO be dangerous man. In speak
ing of newspaper attack upon Comm is
siOner Oberly he said, the other dag: 81
| honestly believe that il Oberly can find
the man who wrote or inspired the arti-
| Gle he will shoot him down like dog, az
he deserves 10 be. I am not much OF
a fighter myself, though / have been in.
/ dicted five or six times for shooting, and
If was little younger ! would not be
afraid to take nsnd at It again" Com
/ missioner Edgerton must feel very mucn
! out OF place on the civil Service Com
mission. He should resign aud go 10
| Texas and Join the ran gers.
! The gross Irregularities IN the conduct
/ OF the physician IN charge Of the Akron,
o, iuhrmary are disgusting, but
/ they are not sensational. or late years
| the country has been made familiar with
a number Of such cases, SO that now a
! new one eXcltes no surprise. What does
! excite surprise is that Notwithstanding
| the most careful efforts to prevent impo-
/ sitiOns upon the helpless inmates OF
/ county poor houses, they are not pre-
vented. The trouble doesn't seem 10 be
with the law, but with the executors OF
the law.
The Cincinnati Ttmes-Star says: The
papers of Florida, whore land is worth
/ $40 and the climate used to be worth
$40, 900 an acre, are alarmed over the
prospects tor this winters campaign"
The rmes-Star has evidently been read
ing our esteemed contemporary, the Jack.
sonville Times Union. As far as beard
from, that is the only Florida paper that
is alarmed about a thing which exists
only in that papers remarkable magma
ton.
1t is an unpleasant fact that men com
missoue'l TO preserve the peace are to,
often the first TO break 1t. The recen
murder Of young Hogan by one OF Pink
ertous men in Jersey city is a case IL
o., point As he saw his victim fall tn,
brutal murderer remarked: ~ guess me-
done for" Swift punishment should %
meted out to every officer Of the Law
guilty OF a like crime, and the prope
] punishment Is hanging.